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...sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held...
...long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer...
Wednesday's Child (by Leopold Atlas; H. C. Potter and George Haight, producers) is a heartfelt, heavily underscored polemic on the sufferings of a sensitive child whose parents flunk in matrimony.* Most effective of its nine scenes is the second, in which Bobby Phillips (Frank M. Thomas Jr.) and his playmates assemble in a debris-littered vacant lot to build a fortress. The precise meaning of the word bastard is the subject of academic discussion which turns personal when Bobby is truculently catechized as to whether his father is the salesman who occasionally comes home to his mother...
...feeder" in half a dozen Broadway shows and in the famed "Two Black Crows." Died. Paul Kochanski, 46, violinist; of abdominal disorders; in Manhattan. Born in Warsaw, he made a début at 11, another in London at 19, joined the Warsaw Conservatory faculty at 21, succeeded Leopold Auer as head Professor of Violin at Petrograd Conservatory seven years later. In the U. S. he became head Professor of Violin at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, dedicated his Caprice to Charles Lindbergh...
...Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco Symphony until Dobrowen returns from guest-conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra during Leopold Stokowski's winter furlough...